The Poets

Ep. 28 – Niko

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Pictured: Niko’s unofficial author’s photo for whenever he gets around to publishing something in a somewhat professional capacity.  Niko is a Denver native, freelance writer, musician, healthcare worker and casual open mic attendee. Writing is how he navigates life in all its messiness, high points, and all else in between. He hopes that through his writing he can help people feel seen and move others whether through humor, commentary on the existential dread that comes with adulthood, or more serious themes. Like holding an uncomfortable mirror to yourself at times. Needless to say, he doesn’t take his writing seriously or professionally but hopes it may be healing to anybody who comes by and listens. (Author’s note: good tea may be essential for the enjoyment of this episode) 

In this episode:

  1. Introduction
  2. A Conversational Checklist for Your Writer Friends
  3. The Quiet Moments in the Car Before a Social Event
  4. Smoke Signals
  5. I Hate that You’re Happy
  6. Chimera
  7. An Artist’s Touch
  8. Untitled (I Thought About Killing Myself Today)
  9. Quiet Mind
  10. Alchemic Recipe for a Less Reluctant Life
  11. You Kill Radicalism with Pussy
  12. Nineteen

One response to “Ep. 28 – Niko”

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    Nathan Pollack

    Mitch and Niko chat about the hypothesis of the poem, what it is. Niko speaks of the poem and the music. Of course. The poem is condensed verbal music. It has tone and cadence and meaning. It describes something real, even so abstractly that it is hard work to make out the direction of the reference. Every poem is a story. Everything that is is a story. A story does not have a beginning, a middle and an end. Stories come from anywhere and go to everywhere. The old writing was in poem-form because it began before writing and the tone and cadence and story were read from the memory of the poem, the many dimensions of the senses of the poem, the rhythmic, the melodic, the romantic. Noe the poet ought be aware of what I have sketched here so shoddily, fill it in, fill it up, offer it to the one ear that can hear even if the ear is not here, even if there is no listener present in this room. (Sorry, Mitch, for the pedantic rant. It is my idiom you know.)

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